With the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) on and capturing some spectacular images, some of them great captures, where do you put them all? On an SSD, of course. It’s a relatively small 68GB SSD, according to IEEE Spectrum, which is enough to handle the day’s worth of JWST images before releasing them to Earth.
Why so humble in size? The JWST is located one million miles from Earth, being bombarded by radiation and temperatures less than 50 degrees above absolute zero (-370 degrees F). Therefore, the SSD, like all other parts, must be hardened by radiation. Samsung’s latest professional-grade SSD may not cut it. In addition, JWST sends data to Earth much faster than Hubble: up to 57 GB in the four hours it is available every day. There seems to be enough storage.
-Mat Smith
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